December 10, 2012

Next Project : TFT Touch Shield

I'll receive the TFT Touch Shield V2.0, another monthly give-away from Seeed Studio.
The idea is to measure the outside and inside temperature and show these values on the TFT display. The TFT Touch Shield also have a SD card module integrated. So I could read an image from the SD card and use it as background image.

 ... and for the touch part a configuration menu allows to configure:
  • temperature display
    show inside, outside, none or both temperatures, a temperature graph (stored temperatures from the SD card)
  • background image
    choose between an image, a random image, temperature dependent image, none, or just a color
  • timer
    select the minutes and start the timer 
  • display
    always on or turn off after x minutes (therefore a capacitive sensor will turn the display on)

For the temperature measurement I'm not sure, if I'm using
  • a SPI one from TI, because the TFT Touch Shield communicates via SPI protocol
  • a DS18S20 with a 1-Wire bus from Dallas/Maxim (mentioned by Enrico Sadlowski in the German Android Google+  Community)
  • or a simple temperature resistor
... but I've got some time before the TFT Touch Shield arrives.

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